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 TEETHWAL, India (AP) - The other half of this Kashmiri village is a mere 100 feet across roaring whitewater, but it is enough to keep families from finding out if their relatives survived the earthquake that devastated South Asia a week ago.
No place in disputed Kashmir illustrates so starkly the reality of a shared tragedy mourned apart as Teethwal — a once unified community split by a fast-flowing river that divides India from Pakistan on one of the world's most fortified frontiers.
"I know they pray for the people here," said Mohammed Salim Khan, a 52-year-old farmer who, like the 600 others in this village, can hear the call to prayer from the mosque on the Pakistani side. "We pray for them."
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